v1 The *Lord can still save. His power has not become weak. He can still hear. He has not become deaf. v2 It is your own wicked lives that have separated you from your holy God. It is your evil deeds that have hidden God from you. That is why he does not listen to your prayers.
CHAPTER LIX _This chapter contains a more general reproof of the wickedness_ _of the Jews_, 1-8. _After this they are represented confessing their sins, and_ _deploring the unhappy consequences of...
BEHOLD, THE LORD’S HAND IS NOT SHORTENED - On the meaning of this phrase, see the notes at Isaiah 50:2. NEITHER HIS EAR HEAVY, THAT IT CANNOT HEAR - On the meaning of this phrase, see the notes at Is...
CHAPTER 59 Apostasy and Confession, Jehovah's Intervention and the Coming of the Redeemer 1. _The deplorable condition of the people (Isaiah 59:1) _ 2. _The confession (Isaiah 59:9) _ 3. Jehovah's in...
SOLELY THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE DELAY YAHWEH'S INTERVENTION. Isaiah 59:5, with their fantastic metaphors and bitter invective, are probably a later addition made in even gloomier times. Note the third p...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ HAND. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ NOT SHORTENED. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 11:23). Compare Isaiah 50:2. The phrase occurs nowhere else in the O....
BEHOLD THE HAND OF JEHOVAH IS NOT TOO SHORT (cf. ch. Isaiah 50:2) TO SAVE, NOR HIS EAR TOO HEAVY (ch. Isaiah 6:10) TO HEAR....
These verses state briefly and forcibly the argument of which the whole chapter is the expansion: not the powerlessness or the indifference of Jehovah, but the sin of the people, is the hindrance to t...
BEHOLD, THE LORD'S HAND IS NOT SHORTENED— The prophet here teaches, that the reason why God does not exert his power for the avenging of his people, is not because _his hand is shortened,_ but because...
F. WRATH OF THE LORD UPON COVENANT DESPISERS, CHAPTER 59 1. THEIR CRIMES TEXT: Isaiah 59:1-8 1 Behold, Jehovah's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot he...
Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: The reason why Yahweh does not deliver His people, notwithstanding their religious service...
1, 2. An answer to the implied objection that the promises of restoration have not yet been fulfilled....
LIX. (1) BEHOLD, THE LORD’S HAND... — The declaration is an implied answer to the complaint, like that of Isaiah 58:3, that the glorious promises had not as yet been fulfilled. The murmurera are told...
הֵ֛ן לֹֽא ־קָצְרָ֥ה יַד ־יְהוָ֖ה מֵֽ הֹושִׁ֑י
CHAPTER XXIII THE REKINDLING OF THE CIVIC CONSCIENCE Isaiah 56:9; Isaiah 57:1; Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1 IT was inevitable, as so
INIQUITIES SEPARATE FROM GOD Isaiah 59:1-15 _Israel's sins_, Isaiah 59:1-8. Much of our suffering in life results from our sins, which cut off God's health and help. Let us not blame Providence, but...
Continuing, the prophet makes confession of moral failure. This he does first by declaring the reason for national suffering. It is not to be found in Jehovah's inability, nor in His unwillingness. Th...
CONTENTS This Chapter opens with describing the nature and consequence of sin. The gracious interposition of Jesus, as a Surety and Intercessor, then follows. And the Chapter closeth with some sweet...
What a blessed assurance does this Chapter open with; and, as if the Lord would have it particularly taken notice of, it is prefaced with a Behold! Very often, I believe, the people of God have found...
1._Behold, the hand of Jehovah is not shortened. _This discourse closely resembles the preceding one; for, after having torn off the mask from hypocrites, who vainly boasted of themselves, and after h...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 58 AND 59. But these moral considerations rouse the indignation of the Spirit at the condition of Israel in the days of the prophecy-their sin and their hypoc...
BEHOLD, THE LORD'S HAND IS NOT SHORTENED, THAT IT CANNOT SAVE,.... It is not for want of power in the Lord, that he has not as yet destroyed the enemies of his people, antichrist, and the antichristia...
Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: Ver. 1. Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened.] That their fasts were not regarded, their...
_Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened_ He is not grown weaker than informer times, but is as omnipotent as ever he was; _neither his ear heavy_ Or dull of hearing: he is not like your idol gods, t...
Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save, it was not want of power on His part which delayed deliverance; NEITHER HIS EAR HEAVY THAT IT CANNOT HEAR, it was not unwillingness on His...
INIQUITIES SEPARATE FROM GOD...
1-8 If our prayers are not answered, and the salvation we wait for is not wrought for us, it is not because God is weary of hearing prayer, but because we are weary of praying. See here sin in true c...
ISAIAH CHAPTER 59 Sin separates between God and us, ISAIAH 59:1,2. Murder, theft, falsehood, injustice, cruelty, ISAIAH 59:3. Calamity for sin, ISAIAH 59:9. Salvation only of God,...
Isaiah 59:1 Behold H2005 LORDS H3068 hand H3027 shortened H7114 (H8804) save H3467 (H8687) ear H241 heavy...
JUDAH/JACOB IN ITS SIN (ISAIAH 59:1 A). Isaiah 59:1 ‘Behold Yahweh's hand is not shortened that it cannot save, Nor his ear heavy that it cannot hear, But your iniquities have separated between yo...
Isaiah 59:1 I. The case of the Jews, to whom these words were first addressed, does not shake our confidence in God's willingness or power to save. They have been oppressed, persecuted, trodden under...
CONTENTS: Sins which prevented the bestowal of God's blessing and caused chastisements to fall upon Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit CONCLUSION: If prayers are not answered and the salva...
Isaiah 59:1. _Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save._ The failure of your fast is not with the Lord; he sees, and he can hear. Neither is the fault in the promises announced by...
_Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened_ Isaiah 57:1. and 59. In the former address, to the dead works on which the people founded their claim to redemption, there were set in contrast the virtues...
THE SUPPOSED AND THE REAL CAUSE OF FAILURE IN THE CHURCH Isaiah 59:1. _Behold the Lord’s hand is not shortened, &c._ As the Church is essentially an aggressive institution, at some periods her succes...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 59:1 A GENERAL REBUKE OF ISRAEL FOR ITS MANIFOLD SINS, The command given to the prophet in Isaiah 58:1 to "show God's people the
Now in fifty-nine: Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear (Isaiah 59:1): "Lord, why aren't You hearing us when we fast? Why aren'...
Genesis 18:14; Hebrews 7:25; Isaiah 50:2; Isaiah 6:10; Isaiah 63:1;...